The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 375 - 374: Swamp Monster (Part 2)

Chapter 375: Chapter 374: Swamp Monster (Part 2)

When the Empress turned her head to look, the thing hidden beneath the swamp burst forth from the soil, giving the Gold Element Superpower User no time to react; branches stained with mud and bearing sharp leaves pierced directly through the superpower user’s chest cavity.

As the breastbone shattered, a scream was cut short in the throat and ceased abruptly.

The entire person was suspended by the branches in mid-air, with eyes widened from sharp leaves piercing through, leaving behind two bloodied sockets, as blood dripped down the mud-stained branches into the swamp below.

"Damn it! What kind of demon is this!"

The energy in the Empress’s hand was activated more and more quickly, while the superpower users around her continuously attacked backward.

Perched in a tree, Su Mo saw branches surging forcefully from all directions behind those people. Not only that, but such things also began to emerge around them.

Su Mo zoomed in for a closer look at the branch that had completely impaled the Gold Element Superpower User and shuddered at the sight, "That’s a willow branch! How can it come out from the ground!"

Lu Chen also braced for battle, his body surrounded by a secure formation of Ice Shields, and together with ice crystals, they were tightly protected. "Swallowed by the swamp, and nourished by the rain," he added.

Whenever it rained, this area was nourished by mutant rain, so it was not surprising that such things could be born.

As Su Mo thought this, she felt even more in danger. Seeing the appearance of the branches, who knew how many more might exist below. If the entire root system of the tree was here, she dared not even imagine that scene.

She immediately grabbed the man’s hand and said urgently, "Pumpkin Protection Shield! If anything happens, we can hold out for a while!"

In this situation, they were definitely going to have to fight, and Lu Chen quickly took out a plate of pumpkins, which they covered with clothing and ate quickly.

Now, how to deliver this to the two people in the trees nearby was the problem.

Over there, countless branches burst from the swamp in the eyes of everyone, with the Empress’s followers immediately breathing out flames towards the branches.

That method seemed effective, but with the rain, the flames only burned for a moment on one branch before being extinguished.

The Fire Ability User wanted to hurl fire again to slow down their advance, but suddenly felt a coldness around his ankle. Before he could react, he was pulled forward and fell into the mud, dragged backward rapidly, leaving behind a long line of blood mixed within the black mud, bringing a heart-piercing pain along with it.

His feet were sliced off horizontally by the sharp leaves, and when he was pulled up inverted from the mud pool, only a pair of severed feet remained in the original spot. The smell of blood mixed with mud was pungent and unpleasant.

"Ah!! My feet! Devil, devil!"

His nearly mad cries of pain lasted only seconds before being silenced by a leaf peeled off from the branch, slicing his throat and piercing through his head.

Su Mo noticed the abnormality, and alarm bells rang in her heart. A sense of crisis followed, "This thing, it doesn’t eat people, only kills them!"

"Overfed," Lu Chen said, but then suddenly lowered his head to look at the roots of the tree they were standing on. Bulges of mud began to form. At the same time, Li Qian yelled at them, "Below!"

A slim branch broke through the soil, and Lu Chen wrapped his arms around Su Mo’s waist, pulling her backward as the Ice Shield hit the branch. The branch passed just by Su Mo’s nose, mere seconds from piercing directly through her jaw.

Su Mo’s reflexes took over as she swung her knife, slashing through the branches and sending a thick green liquid spewing out to splash onto the Ice Shield Lu Chen had formed.

The Empress wasn’t having an easy time, and neither were they.

In the tree, Jianxiong carefully removed his coat and draped it over Ling Ye, who he nudged closer to Jiang Yulian. He unleashed his superpowers to their greatest extent, and his frame noticeably grew, his large and small silhouettes nearly completely shielding the others. The rain wet his silver skin, making his explosive muscles look particularly terrifying.

From a distance, he was like a massive flesh shield of silver.

Li Qian also adopted a combat stance, his spiritual power manifesting as silky threads that enveloped the entire tree he was on. Zhao Changsheng’s Thunder Whip crackled noisily, and when rain droplets hit it, they would trigger a not-so-weak current.

All of a sudden, the Empress had lost two powerful superpower users. By the time the mud surged to their waists, she and the others had barely made it to the edge of the trees.

Branches continued to bubble up from the swamp behind them, speeding towards the crowd as it gathered together.

Countless leaves shook off the branches, the sharp leaves, as deadly as blades, were whisked up by a gust of wind, flying towards them with mud and raindrops as if alive.

Lu Chen was the first to react, sending all of the ice crystals he had been amassing towards the front. The leaves were pierced by the ice crystals and shot into the muddy ground, or directly severed the branches that followed closely behind.

Su Mo wasn’t idle either; with Lu Chen’s restraining hand around her waist for support, she embraced the tree trunk with one hand and leaned forward slightly to chop off the branches that kept trying to close in on her.

With the help of the protection shield, both of them were handling the situation quite easily.

Jianxiong had turned into a complete meat shield; the sharp leaves could only leave extremely superficial cuts on his body. When a branch attacked, he grabbed it with his bare hands, attempting to uproot it but failing. Instead, he took hold of each end with his hands and tore it apart, releasing a burst of green liquid.

After Li Qian expended a significant amount of spiritual power in a powerful move, all the foreign matter around the tree turned into a green mist, and Zhao Changsheng’s whip whooshed through empty air.

Compared to their relative ease, the situation was much harder for the Empress and her group who had just climbed up the trees.

Branches incessantly crawled up the tree trunk, and in an instant, two more of the people who had already overexerted their superpowers were dead.

The rain was so heavy it could even be described as torrential; the visibility was obscured by a huge curtain of water merging with the swamp that was nearly turning into a sea of mud.

Not far from a few trees, a large area of the swamp started to whirl, stirring the sludge. Several abnormally thick branches emerged, much thicker than the ones that had attacked Su Mo and the others before.

The scene became frightening and spectacular. When the first thick branch, accompanied by countless leaves, charged at Su Mo, the energy emanating from it caused everyone’s hearts to pound.

"It’s Level 6!", Su Mo’s voice almost broke, her grip on the knife tightening.

In the moment it reached Su Mo, Lu Chen’s Space superpower erupted; the space in front of them twisted, and as the branch touched it, only the front part shattered before it rapidly withdrew back. It seemed to understand that a frontal attack was ineffective and suddenly burrowed into the depths of the swamp.

Immediately after, Su Mo could feel the tree they were standing on shaking violently.

"The tree’s falling!", Su Mo hugged the trunk tightly, turning around to grab hold of the front of Lu Chen’s shirt.